Call: Analysis of Satellite Images

The RedLAC Impact Monitoring Working Group seeks expert institutions that can do the analysis for satellite images. This working group, comprised by eight RedLAC Funds, will apply a monitoring system using the analysis of free satellite images (Landsat) , to determine changes in the coverage of habitats and fragmentation in the areas chosen. See Terms of References (in Spanish). Applications are received until June 20, 2013, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 15th RedLAC Assembly speakers confirmed

We have now our keynote speaker, Costa Rican ex-President José María Figueres, confirmed to participate at our annual Assembly, which will take place in San Jose, Costa Rica, at the Double Tree Hilton Hotel on November 4-7, 2013.

Dan Winterson from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Ede Ijjasz Vasquez from the World Bank, and Miguel Cifuentes from CATIE also confirmed their assitance, to present Moore's Program Related Investments (PRI), the role of Environmental Funds to achieve the Aichi Targets, and BlueCarbon, respectively.

RedLAC seeks specialist for Capacity Building Workshop on Governance Strategies for EFs

We are looking for a specialist to coordinate the 8th workshop of the RedLAC Capacity Building Project, which will address the theme "Governance Strategies for Environmental Funds". The workshop will take place in Madagascar, from September 16th to 18th, 2013.

Giants Route in Costa Rica

Forever Costa Rica Association (RedLAC member) and Albatros Media Foundation present their project “Giants Route, Whales in Costa Rica”, an international campaign that seeks to collect digital signatures to support an initiative to make the South Atlantic a whale sanctuary.

CAFÉ's 3rd Assembly in Madagascar

CAFÉ’s 3rd General Assembly will be held during the week of September 16th, 2013, in Madagascar, hosted by the Madagascar Biodiversity Fund and the Tany Meva Foundation. During the same week the 8th RedLAC's Capacity Building workshop will take place.

RedLAC Assembly 2013 in Costa Rica

We are glad to announce that the 15th RedLAC Annual Assembly will take place in San Jose, Costa Rica in Novemeber 2013, and it will be hosted by the Fund Forever Costa Rica. More information soon.

10th World Wilderness Congress

The 10th World Wilderness Congress -10th WWC or WILD 10- will be held in Salamanca, Spain, from the 4th to the 10th of October 2013, with the full cooperation of the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture & Environment .

The RFS was presented in Ecuador

On January 24th Fondo Ambiental Nacional- FAN held an encounter with the Secretariat for Climate Change of the Ministry of Environment of Ecuador, where Natalia Arango from Fondo Acción conducted a workshop to present the Rainforest Standard and invite them to discuss the relevance of this tool for the Ministry’s plans on reducing emissions from deforestation.

The Key to Achieving REDD+ Objectives

The Initiative for Conservation in the Andean Amazon – ICAA, of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), published the article Understanding Relationships between Biodiversity, Carbon, Forests and People: The Key to Achieving REDD+ Objectives. Click here to read the article.

Hotel Zuana bets on sea turtles care with the Program Pioneers in Conservation

The environmental  initiative invites the hotel industry and its guests to be part of nature conservation activities.  Hotel Zuana, in Colombia, the first Pioneer.                            

Pioneers in conservation is a donation program by Fondo Patrimonio Natural that links hotels and guests interested in the conservation of flora and fauna of the natural areas of the country. With the contributions donated by guests, Playa Lengüeta, one of the main nesting sites of sea turtles in the Colombian Caribbean, will be conserved. It aims to raise 300 million Colombian Pesos a year for conservation projects.

PUMA FA's Innovation: CONFOR

PUMA Fondo Ambiental shares the Baba Carapa Forest Program (PBC in Spanish), an innovative initiative that seeks to create sustainable conservation businesses among rural Bolivian communities.